This week's guest is Abraham Mamela. Based in Botswana, Abraham is a communications and engagement practitioner currently working at the Alliance for African Partnership.

We talk about

1. How Abraham learned the importance of connecting communication and engagement
2. His time as an intern and engagement fellow at Wellcome
3. Communicating genome research through comics
4. Why the research ecosystem in Africa needs to focus more on engagement

Read the full show notes on the podcast webpage

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Theme music by Vitaliy Levkin from Pixabay

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